Workbench



.1. HILL WORK BENCH March 13, 1928.

2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Filed March 21. 1927 awuemto'a JABE [1 ILL Mmh 13,1928.

J HILL WORKBENCH Filed March 2l. 1927 2 Sheets-Sheet 2.

Snvmttoz J4EE H/LL 331 Patented. Mar. 13, 1928.

UNITED STATES JAB] HILL, PHOENIX ARIZONA.

WOBKBENCH.

Application fi led larch 21, 1927. Serial 170. 177,148.

This invention relates to a work bench and eneral utilit machine,primarily intended or the use 0 carpenters, but capable of use in manyother relations where woodworking 6 is to be done.. It is a primaryobject of the invention to provide a machine of the character indicatedadapted to be easily transported from place to place, to pass throughordinary doorways, and one which will render it possible to perform manydifferent kinds of woodworking operations with facility and quickness.

Further objects and advantages of the mvention will be set forth in thedetailed de- 15 scription which follows.

In the accompany drawings:

Fig. l is a plan view of a machine constructed in accordance with theinvention.

Fig. 2 is a front elevation thereof.

Fig. 3 is a longitudinal vertical sectional view therethrough. v

Fig. 4 is a vertical sectional view on line 44 of Fig. 3, and

Fig. 5 is a vertical sectional view on line 25 5-5 of Fig. 3.

Like numerals designate corresponding parts in all of thefigures of thedrawings.

The machine or bench of the present invention comprises supporting legs5 and :0 cross supports 6, which support a lower deck 7 and an upperdeck 8. A part of the upper -.deck is in the form of a hinged top 9which is hingedly mounted at 10. A conventional form of carpenters viseis indicated at 11. 35 A bench vise 12 is secured at one end of theupper deck. A jointer 13 projects throughthe upper deck 8 adjacent asuitable guide- 14. This jointer is carried b a shaft 15 which is driventhrou' h suita le tight and 40 loose pulleys 16, belt 1 and tight andloose pulleys 18 from a counter shaft 19. This counter shaft, in turn,is driven by a belt 20 from the shaft 21 of an electric motor 22 A belt23 drives from the shaft of the motor 45 to a shaft 24. The shaft 24carries a chuck 25 for the reception of an auger 26 which constitutesthe boring element of the machine. The shaft 24 also constitutes themandrel of a circular saw or dado cutter o 25. The element 25', whetherit be an ordinary cut-off or rip saw, or a dadoin device, pro ectsthrough a slot 26' forme in the inged section 9 of the upper deck. Runs27 carried by said hinged section, constitute trackways for miter box28, said.miter box having a gooseneck 29 connectin the opposite endportions of the same at t 1e point of said miter box that is alignedwith the saw 25. A transverse worm shaft 30 is adapted to have a crank31 mounted upon its outer end by which it may be turned, and this wormshaft has operating engagement with the shanks 32 of screw' jacks 33.These screw jacks have spherical heads 34 which rest in concave sockets35 upon theunder side of the hinged section 9 of the upper deck, so thatas the shanks 32 are raised, under their threadedengagement with thebody portions of the jacks 33, the hinged section 9 will be elevated.Thus work placed upon thehinged section 9 may be so held with respect tothe saw as to be cut entirely through or merely grooved upon its underside and such grooving may be to any desired depth. It is manifest thatthe same will be true. with respect to any dadoing operation.

It is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the preciseconstruction set forth but that it includes within its purview whateverchanges fairly come within either the terms or the spirit of theappended claim.

Having described my invention what I claim is:

A machine of the characterdescribed, com prising alower deck and anupper deck, a portion of the upper deck being hinged transversely of themachine to adapt it to tilt in the direction of the length of themachine, and a circular saw supported from the lower deck and projectingthrough the tilting portion' of the u per deck through an opening whichexten s longitudinally ofthe machine, a pair of guide-ways carried bythe tilting portion of the machine, one upon each side of the saw, amiter box mounted to slide ture.

JABE HILL.

